Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Overview Quiz

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Overview Quiz

eNotes' Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close Overview Quiz covers the major and minor details of Foer's novel, including questions on Oskar's quest and interests, as well as memories of his late father Thomas. Test your knowledge of this modern classic today.

Question 1

What does Thomas often pretend to read?

The New York Times

Grandma’s blank pages

Gray’s Anatomy

The dictionary

Question 2

Why does Oskar say his father would approve of being exhumed?

He valued truth

He had a gruesome love of death

He thinks there is no sanctity in death

He thinks he might be absolved of sin if given a second burial

Question 3

What fluid does Thomas imagine is feeding the trees?

Blood

Beer

Coca-Cola

Tears

Question 4

What sport does Oskar take up, at his mother's suggestion?

Chess

Basketball

Fencing

Jujitsu

Question 5

What word is written on the key that Oskar finds?

Black

Red

Blue

White

Question 6

What song is on Oskar's ringtone?

I'm a Believer

Flight of the Bumblebee

Stairway to Heaven

I Gotta Feeling

Question 7

Which character does Oskar portray in Hamlet?

Hamlet

The ghost

Claudius

Yorick

Question 8

To whom does Oskar write, asking to be his protege?

Neil Gaimon

Neil de Grasse Tyson

Stephen Hawking

Christopher Hitchens

Question 9

What object is the only thing Thomas saves from the rubble in Dresden?

His father’s pocket watch

His journal

His typewriter

A photograph of his mother

Question 10

What instrument does Oskar play?

Drums

Guitar

Tambourine

French horn

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